Wu Ming Jen

If someone was to hire a master for their schools seminar paying for the flight, food, lodging and teaching the seminar that could work out to some cash per 20 min.

A good method to fall asleep is to wiggle your feet. This helps get rid of the mental chatter and bring the energy out of your head and to your feet. Reading the Taoist classics which can be read over and over helps me to fall asleep as well. As soon as I stop thinking it is lights out but I never had any trouble with sleeping. Sleeping just happens to be something I am really good at.

Long live Wudang Kung Fu! (the perfected warrior) "Tao rules the land" at least that is what is says on the first gate. I would highly recommend doing Ba Gua Chang other internal arts such as Tai Chi Chuan and Hsing Yi Chuan are interrelated as well. Some like to walk in circles, some prefer straight lines and then there is Tai Chi that likes both and makes them one Good luck on your search.

Because Taoist meditation is based on energy arts when we eat we are using energy to digest food. Allow the system to properly digest and transform liquids and solids into fuel more powerful than any fuel known to man for machines. Once this process is finished about 20 min. the energy in meditation we are transforming is more effective and not weakened or diverted to other processes required by the body. Mental activity in meditation also diverts energy. Digestion begins in the mouth, saliva breaking down the food before ingesting then we get the most bang for our buck Sitting meditation is not physical demanding to be most effective this form should be paired with hard work. Physical routines done on a full belly will cause discomfort.

Breathing WITH the LTD. (moving inward on inhale and expanding with exhale.) Taoist breathing is mixing pre natal and post natal energies The belly should become warm. This method of breathing massages the internal organs and strengthens the core when paired with the anal lock method on inhale and release on exhale.. Taoist breathing, womb breathing, martial breathing, reverse breathing all names for the same thing. Tortoise breathing is accomplished after years of practice. Putting your mind on chi flow causes stagnation of energy. Many methods in the beginning but once we have feeling and awareness we can drop the methods. like using a boat to get across the river, once across you do not need the boat any more.

Nailed it..... Yi and shen

Related to the energy expended by thought and intention, this form of energy regulates the Shen, or spirit. It is related to the Earth element and the two internal organs the spleen and the pancreas. It is the energy of the stable mind and a moderator of one’s behavior. It is also responsible for analytical thinking, memory and intelligence. It can balance polarity, as it is neither yin nor yang. Yi can be a factor in eliciting and fostering change. So Yi must be intention, change, a rite and order all rolled up as one. Not surprising that we need over 50 English words to partial describe a single Chinese symbol. ​Chinese Tattoos are a great form of language as it turns out.

Right, the tiger is our friend with a great gift to offer.

It does not amaze me how everyone here is very in touch and sensitive.(doing the hard work) We could name ten thousand diseases and illnesses that result from not being in touch and sensitive to our emotional life. Anger Disgust Fear Happiness Sadness Surprise This is google 6 emotions and I found it very weird. It is like how an emotion may appear to someone else. Seems very shallow and talk about being scared to get internal. This system would never lead to any depth at all.

The Taoist do not consider love as an emotion. I did not understand this until love made me cry, gave me pleasure, made me laugh, scared, worried and angry, Seven emotions: 喜 pleasure, 怒 anger, 悲 sorrow, 惊 fright, 忧 worry, 恐 fear, 思 thought. The seven emotions are triggered when 神行于体内 the Shen is moving within the physical body. When these emotions are out of balanced, they not only effect us but will provoke others around us.

Congratulations for going into the tigers cave. Many are way too afraid and do not have the courage to confront their emotions but the pearl in the cave has more then just healing ability. Once we can see where our emotions come from we are the master and the emotions have a new kind leader. We should cycle through our emotions everyday. The problem is when we hold on to one emotion for any length of time. Feeling is way more accurate then emotions because emotions are just way to emotional and can make people do weird things and even act against their true nature. Acting or responding from an emotion can lead to trouble if we are not careful.

This connects the governing and functioning channels. It is the natural position when we close our mouth just behind the front teeth. Another practical application in martial arts is so we do not bite our tongue off. Completely natural, lightly touching, not using force.

Cloud hands I was taught Silk Reeling via Chen style Tai Chi. This taught me how to unwind force, move in a way so not to break the thread. As a parent I find this most effective diffusing a situation, turning a possible bad situation in to something better. When things become rough a diversion, shift in attention has the ability to smooth things out again maintaining balance. The energetic atmosphere around me is more important then a lesson that will result in emotional chaos.. Showing a child how to shift energy or a situation to be more beneficial is a better lesson,

Hi Mig, IMO the DDJ is a beautiful gift to the world with limitless applications. Family to me is the original government. I was the youngest of 6 kids so I knew my place immediately.Lets just say I had no rank or position in the government.I had to go to the eldest for protection and to state my case. My dad was the ultimate authority and my mom was nurturing, providing all my survival needs. We play many roles in life, We have no script and the movie is always live.

Cloud hands, may I ask why it is too late? Cloud hands is a great name, I see a vision of you working out. moving quickly and with the light of the day it looks as you have continuous hands, made of clouds, changing, appearing and disappearing, sometimes soft and some times as fierce as a mighty storm.

I forgot to mention, hug, touch, play, love if you have a young child and they are not sitting on you, jumping on your gut, putting their feet in your face or something really annoying,,,,, this is not normal. Touch, hug, play, love, joy, Family from antiquity to infinity and beyond.

Discipline is like disciplining ourselves first. We must always be respectful and show respect by behaving properly and knowing when inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated. By having a good relationship with the world around us we will be instilling this in our children even when they can seem to have the exact opposite interest in life. Structure is very important, just like the sun and moon and season change in fixed regularity, works great for planing and scheduling, knowing the time, when to move fast or when to move slow. Just doing things with our kids instills non verbal information on a higher level. the information is absorbed like a sponge in the first years of a child the most precious and safe guarded years,most demanding of our attention. Life is not easy, treacherous waters. The reality, This is hilarious as I was typing this reply and my son called me who lives about 1500 miles away to talk about stuff and my grandson and I talked who I unintentionally love deeply. I never had my heart broken until the day he moved away he is five and a half. The best part of parenting advice is every one is full to give it. My advice is to ignore it all and go with your gut instincts. Only you know best.

Eat meals together, Play, have no agenda, be non judgmental, love, play, love, be supportive, play, encourage all interest, place them first before yourself, play, love, give them opportunities that set them on a proper course to navigate through the most trenchers waters and find safe harbor. Be the safe harbor, being there, being there, being present in their presence. 90% of success is showing up.

I am a fan of Tai Chi Chuan family styles Chen, Yang and Wu. My second teacher taught all three styles plus the Cheng Man Ching form. I currently practice Wudang Kung Fu (3 internal Styles Ba Gua Chang, Hsing Chuan. Tai Chi Chuan (non pinyin English names may give away my age) Love the old video footage. Best of luck you may find application is the same even with a very different look from different styles. The energy basis is the same, rollback is moving force backwards and down regardless to the way it "looks". in a form or with free fighting

Evil does not exist in nature. When a person is no longer part of nature, mis-lead or does not realize their true nature, that creates evil in men. Systems allow people to be evil, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, Christian and Muslim they support each other. Gods partner or opposite is the devil the root of all evil because it justifies people to do evil things to get rid of evil (makes no sense) This is a philosophical blunder or a major mistake. The Taoist are in a superior position when it comes to allowing people to fulfill there own true nature with the absence of evil as it is in reality. Good and bad are the true opposites. Extremist will be extremist and need evil so they can get on with the dirty dark side because they are hurting from being helled / separated from reality and their own divine nature.. In the world of men we can thank our systems for introducing the concept of evil that simply does not exist in our own real human nature as well as all of nature.

Someone needs to reach their goals and have an agenda too bad that does not work with the greatest mystery of all. True Emptiness is not empty it contains all things. How do we penetrate the mystery? We can not, we are the mystery.

​There is a goal? Does this mean I need to score? There is something to understand? This is very confusing. When did Tao become knowledge, acting, agendas, goals, high or low ,have or have not? No wonder sages have nothing to teach. ​This all sounds like something that happens when the Tao is lost. I am right and you are wrong who would like to be the judge? If you agree with me that would be awesome. If you disagree with me how can you be a fair judge. My me is so full of me i can not even see everything that is not me which makes me and everything. I give up, I am going to make some soup with these opposites and drink it. one dash of wrong one dash of right, Oh...the soup is me. I mean an apple

I would suggest opening up the descending channel, front center body. The heat / fire rises up spine and water / cool descending channel sinks use intention and a 5% tilt forward with posture to help stimulate energy moving downward with exhale. Producing heat is a good sign but this needs to be balanced. Do not let the fire get too hot or too cold regulate the furnace. Follow chi, observe, get out of the way. Some people can get raging headaches when they are TRYING to accomplish something. Let it be

Wisdom is something we are born with. The conditioning and miss direction of humanity is their to undermined our wisdom. We are already complete do not let your self be deceived. the true master is inside us not more in sages or less in others.

Please do not be offended if I forgot or missed someone lets just add it to the list, This is a very good thing for the plumbing and bathware industry and we may want to invest in these companies early to get some good returns.